A brief piece in today’s Boston Globe caught our attention.
Evidently, Temple Shalom is not the only religious organization on the south of Boston that is facing financial challenges stemming from, in part, from a shrinking congregation. Milton’s Baptist church moved out of town a couple of months ago.
Shaare Tefilah of Norwood has recently moved to a new space at the Solomon Schecter Day School in Norwood. Their property was sold to the Jain Center of Greater Boston. From the Jain Center web site:
Jainism is a religion and a way of life.
For thosands of years, Jains have been practicing vegatarianism, yoga, meditation and environmentalism. Jains believe in the existence of eternal and devine SOUL in each living being. (You can find the Jain Center web site here.)
You can read the Globe article here.
It is very disappointing that this is the second religious institution in the last year that has been able to sell their property to another religious institution, and yet temple shalom has been focused on selling their property to a commercial developer that will impact its very densely residential neighborhood. I think that everybody (neighbors, temple shalom, and the town of milton) is being taken advantage of by the real estate lawyer and developer who want to build a shopping center for a high profit yield.
john fichtman
91 cheever st
milton